The name of Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State is among the list of three names missing as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) released the names of the successfully nominated candidates of the 18 political parties on Friday.
The forms and particulars of the senatorial candidates were pasted at the INEC offices across the federation, on Friday, just as those of the presidential candidates were slated to be published at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja, the same day.
PREMIUM TIMES reported that although the particulars of the presidential candidates were not published as scheduled, those of the senatorial candidates nominated by parties were published at the state level.
Mr Umahi had contested in the presidential primaries of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), but lost in the exercise polling 38 votes to come a distant sixth against the eventual winner, Bola Tinubu, who polled 1,271 votes.
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